Idea Book
Baby

See also:  Children, Girl

And Now May I Introduce You To...
Heaven Sent
Our Miracle
Bundle of Joy
Little Angel
Big Things Come in Small Packages
Our Bundle From Heaven
Coming Home

Little One

New Arrival

Chip off the Ol' Block

Drool Fool

Oh Baby!

Quotes

Babies are such a nice way to start people  Don Herold

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother  Mark Twain

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love and reason visibly stream  Ralph Waldo Emerson

How pleasant it is to see a human countenance which cannot be insincere!  Sophia A. Hawthorne

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last  Charles Dickens (from The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby)

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food.  But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.  Louise J. Kaplan

Disobedience is the infant's first step toward autonomy  Lewis Mumford

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on  Carl Sandburg

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve.  Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.  R.D. Laing

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!  William Wordsworth

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.  And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy.  James Barrie

You were our first miracle. You were the genesis of a marriage, the fulfillment of love, the promise of our infinity…You were the beginning.  Erma Bombeck

You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes  Maya Angelou

Babies are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, enchanting, extraordinary little creatures—who grow up into ordinary folk like us  Doris Dyson

The little child, when it sees a star sparkle, stretches out its dimpled arms; it wants that star. To want a star is the beautiful insanity of the young.  Countess de Gasparin

As your baby progresses from one milestone to the next, remember that he doesn’t really leave any of them behind. In order to grow and develop to his full potential he must continually build on and strengthen all of the steps that have gone before.  Stanley I. Greenspan

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops  Maurice Johnstone

Diaper backwards spells repaid. Think about it.  Marshall McLuhan

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enchanting is that baby-laugh, all dimples and glitter…so strangely warm and innocent  Margaret F. Ossoli

The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base.... In this way he recharges himself. He refuels on the loving energies that flow to him from his mother. Then he’s off for another foray of adventure and exploration.  Louise J. Kaplan

There was a star danced, and under that I was born  William Shakespeare

I think my life began with waking up and loving mother's face  George Eliot

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility  Kate Douglas Wiggin

Nobody said giving birth is easy, but there's no other way to get the job done  Ivana Trump